What
While walking parent directories for CLAUDE.md project memory, the loader now skips any candidate whose link resolves outside the project root, logging that it links out of the project instead of reading it.
Details
- Runs unconditionally as part of the existing project-settings memory loading.
- Blocks symlinks and includes that would pull content in from outside the project tree.
Evidence
links out of the project; skipped
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundleCLAUDE.md
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Added since
A small documentation edit on How Claude Code works touched a line naming CLAUDE.md after this was published.
* `/init` generates a starter CLAUDE.md for your projecthow-claude-code-works see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE.md, on Claude Code changelog.
* \[Code Review] Fixed reviews ignoring a directory's CLAUDE.md conventions when the PR edited a root file (e.g. README.md) that only shares a name with a file that CLAUDE.md listschangelog see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE.md, on Claude Code changelog.